Marudhar Engineering College, Bikaner Electrical Drives & Control Lab Manual

Experiment Object:- Study 3-phase dual converter. Theory:In many variable-speed drives, four-quadrant operation is required, and three-phase dual converters are extensively used in applications up to the 2MW level. Figure 1shows a threephase dual converter, where two converters are connected back-to-back. In the dual converter, one rectifier provides the positive current to the load, and the other the negative current. Due to the instantaneous voltage differences between the output voltages of the converters, a circulating current flows through the bridges. The circulating current is normally limited by circulating reactor LD as shown in Fig. 1. The two converters are controlled in such a way that if + is the delay angle of the positive current converter, the delay angle of the negative current converter is- = 180 - +.

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1. Dual converter in a four-quadrant dc drive

Figure 2 shows the instantaneous dc voltages of each converter,

and

. Despite the average

voltage VD is the same in both the converters, their instantaneous voltage differences, given by voltage Vr , are not producing the circulating current ir , which is superimposed with the load currents and .To avoid the circulating current ir , it is possible to implement a circulating current free converter if a dead time of a few milliseconds is acceptable. The converter section not required to supply current remains fully blocked. When a current reversal is required, a logic switch-over system determines at first the instant at which the conducting converters current becomes zero. This converter section is then blocked and the further supply of gating pulses to it prevented. After a short safety interval (dead time), the gating pulses for the other converter section are released.

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2. Waveform of circulating current: (a) instantaneous dc voltage from positive converter; (b) instantaneous dc voltage from negative converter; (c) voltage difference between and , Vr and circulating current

Result:The study of three phase dual converter has been done and the waveform of output voltages also studied successfully.

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